After the University of Connecticut’s Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center put out this hip video featuring dubstep and 3D printing, Leila Ladani left her post at the University of Alabama, where she created new materials and prototype parts for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and said, “I want to be where the party’s at!” In reality, it may not have gone quite like that, but UConn’s new associate professor of mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering was drawn to the school for the types of machines featured in the video, saying, UConn has two pieces of additive manufacturing equipment [Arcam electron beam melting machines] that are very rare and very expensive, and it soon will be getting additional high-end equipment that will allow us to fabricate different materials in a very unique way. UConn has made a very large investment in this area and that is one of the reasons I came to UConn.…
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